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réf. 108233Verona Officina Bodoni 1973. . Limited edition number 138 of 160 copies; 2 vols 255 x 170 mm; Latin verses and the Italian version by Accio Zucco including Caxton's translation into English woodcut illustrations by Anna Bramanti after Liberale da Verona all hand-coloured after a copy of the 1479 edition in the British Museum by the Atelier Daniel Jacomet of Paris prospectus loosely inserted; publisher's green morocco-backed vellum with strapwork border and title in gilt top edge gilt other uncut transparent wrappers together in slip-case. some age related mottling to vellum as usual otherwise near-fine. One of the most beautiful of Mardersteig's productions printer and typographer head of Officina Bodoni with charming hand-coloured illustrations. Verona, Officina Bodoni, 1973. hardcover
réf. 9354048684.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1981réf. 193465London: Hodder & Stoughton 1981. Hardback No Dust Wrapper. Very Good. Edward J. Detmold. Condition Notes: A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. The contents complete clean and tight; Hardback. Red boards with gilt titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 9¾ x 7¼ 1.3 kg; pp xvi 152; Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange; Includes: Line drawings; Colour plates 23 including the frontispiece; The book is on the shelf ready to be appropriately packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John Bath by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #193465 London: Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1909réf. 035074London: Hodder and Stoughton 1909. Book. Illus. by Detmold E. J. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrators. Limited Edition. Large 4to 26 x 31cm. This edition limted to seven hundred and fifty copies numbered and signed by the artist of which this is No. 102. Unpaginated. 25 fine tipped-in colour illustrations by Detmold all with captioned paper guards and all in very good condition. Original cream cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration. Binding very good and clean without soiling light wear only gilt slightly dulled. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. Contents clean and tight original end papers with scarab beetle motif to the centre a little surface damage repaired to the edges of the front paste-down previous owner's neat signature to the front free endpaper. A very good copy of the fine limited edition. Hodder and Stoughton Hardcover
réf. 23025London: Warne And Co Nd. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth spine and illustrated boards lettered in red and black. Very good. 152 pages. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. With 80 original illustrations and colored engraved frontispiece and vignette. Rubbing to extremities. National Nursery Library. Warne And Co hardcover
1900réf. 044144Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company 1900. Undated ca. 1900. Well-illustrated selection of Aesop's fables with 75 full page illustrations frontis in color remaining plates in black and white. Bright and colorful pictorial hardcover in sea-green aqua blue black yellow and white 7.75 inches tall illustrated dustjacket. The book has some rubbing to corners and spine ends good hinges sound text block age-toned and lightly speckled endpapers pages clean name and 1904 date inside front cover two small stickers on front free endpaper - Santa and a clown - no other names or markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is age-toned with chips mainly to the spine ends fairly little paper loss. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. W. B. Conkey Company Hardcover
1925réf. 148086Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company 1925. Vintage Copy. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. 3 inch open tear at front spine edge. Light staining on rear panel. Light bumping at corners of front/rear panels. Illustrations by Joseph Eugene Dash. Albert Whitman & Company hardcover
réf. 1331896827.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 9354048188.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 41457Printed for John Stockdale Piccadilly. 2 vols. roy. 8vo. First Edition thus LARGE PAPER with engraved title-vignettes and 110 fine full-page engraved plates; handsomely bound in contemporary full brown diced calf boards with triple frame border enclosing decorative frame all in gilt backs with raised bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a geometrical floral flourish marbled edges gilt doublures marbled endpapers expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down a splendid crisp and remarkably clean copy in sympathetically restored period binding. WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF RAWSON BODDAM CROZIER 1775-1849 ON FRONT PASTE-DOWNS. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SELECTION. Large Paper copies are invariably as here the first issue with uncorrected page numeral 891 on p.198 and issued without Stockdale's later advertisement leaf for his edition of Gay's Fables. This selection comprises 110 fables each illustrated with a superb full-page engraving by Blake Clarke Eastgate Grainger Landseer Stothard and several other artists. Croxall compiled his translation first published in 1722 to rival the well-known version of Roger L'Estrange first published 1692 many times reprinted and prior to Croxall the well-nigh 'standard' text. Croxall accuses his predecessor of Jacobite tendencies but has himself not resisted the temptation to incorporate political overtones into what is primarily a children's book. A SPLENDID COPY OF THE FIRST STOCKDALE EDITION AND SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, hardcover
1865réf. 023496Hurd 1865. No Binding. Near Fine. New York: Hurd and Houghton 1865. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Illustrated with 111 engravings from original designs by Herrick . First edition thus. 12mo. green and gilt boards with period yellow end papers 311 pp. All edges gilt very ornate binding with animals and decorations all in blind-stamped gilt very attractive and conditionally near fine. Date on title page matches date of copyright true first printing thus. Hurd unknown
1926réf. 288630Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel 1926. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Celia M. Fiennes. Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Wood engraved illustrations by Celia M. Fiennes. 94 pages. Tall 8vo linen-backed brown boards uncut edges. Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press 1926. Limited Edition - number 267 of 325 copies. A fine copy lacking the dust wrapper. One of 350 numbered copies. Golden Cockerel unknown
1823réf. 75538Newcastle: T. Bewick & Son. Very Good. 1823. Fine Binding. This book has been re-bound hard-bound in a fine binding of smooth green leather with gilt-stamping raised bands and gilt stamped leather labels on the spine. The covers show some light scuffing and sunning edge-wear and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The spine is lightly sunned. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and legible with vignette illustrations but also with some damp-staining to the outer edge of some of the pages. Limited # 243 with a facsimile signature and "thumbprint" of Thomas Bewick on the Limitation Page. . T. Bewick & Son unknown
réf. 0006526New York and Boston: Hurd And Houghton / E. P. Dutton 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Henry Walker Herrick. 12mo xii 311 pages red bevelled publisher's cloth rebacked with original spine laid down original floral endpapers all edges gilt. Variant with gilt fox in a circle on covers. This is Samuel Croxall text unattributed with a lengthy "Application" at the end of each of the 110 fables here. For example "The Hunted Beaver" draws comparisons to the Inquisition and persecution of the Jews - with advice I do not comprehend. Illustrated by watercolorist Henry Walker Herrick Hurd And Houghton / E. P. Dutton hardcover
1694réf. 8748London. c. 1694. Bound by Richmond in full elaborately blind embossed calfskin. Guilt-tool ornamental devices to front and rear covers. Raised bands and guilt titles to spine. Marbled endsheets. Tall 4to. Early Printing. Illustrated with a frontis Depicting Aesope surrounded by animal characters. Wing A-706: Hodnett-Aesope in England 63. This copy; lacks title page ad leaf @ pg.38 and portrait of L'Estange. Spine heal lacking with lacquered repared. Corners bumped. Covers mildly rubbed. Else a Very Good sound copy. hardcover
réf. 75443London:: Hodder and Stoughton no date. publisher's illustrated green gilt-lettered cloth. Endsheets slightly tanned; 2" split to the paper of the rear inner hinge still sound; spine tanned with light rubbing to extremities. The plates and text are fine. 8vo. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and 22 tipped-in color illustrations by Edward J. Detmold. Hodder and Stoughton, hardcover
1966réf. 38055New York: Macmillan 1966. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Several nicks.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Macmillan hardcover
1975réf. 329498Boston: Gambit 1975. First. hardcover. near fine/very good-. David Levine. Selected and illustrated by David Levine with 50 humorous line drawings. 104 pages. Thin 8vo black cloth with red printed labels on cover and spine d.w. price-clipped and lightly chipped at edges with one small stain. Boston: Gambit 1975. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good- dust wrapper; inscribed by the artist on the half title along with a large original pen and ink drawing of a lion. Gambit unknown
1931réf. 122334455668The sole UK printing published by the Gregynog Press Newtown : 1931. Number '125' of only 250 copies issued. Illustrated with thirty-seven wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker and wood-engraved initials by her husband William McCance typographer and sculptor. This title was Parker's first collaboration with the Press. Bound in the publisher's original tanned sheepskin with the title blocked in black foil on the spine. Printed in Bembo Type on Barcham Green hand-made paper. The BOOK is in Very Good condition with minor rubbing to the spine and the extremities else a fine copy with only a very occasional light spot in places. A book that is seldom encountered in such sharp condition. The book is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. Together with Gertrude Hermes and Blair Hughes-Stanton Parker helped to usher in a period of masterly illustrated editions at Gregynog with the Esope title considered one of the masterpieces of the Press. The illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker are considered by Colin Franklin to rank this book as 'the most conspicuously decorative volume of that kind' the binding is smooth appropriately naturalistic and exceptionally well preserved and the type hand-set by Richard Jones is generous and exacting. Writing in his The Private Presses Colin Franklin concluded that 'the entire work of Gregynog printing and binding produced a better thing that anyone else had attempted'. Jones pp. 30-1. Housed in the original plain card slipcase which is a little age worn rubbed and marked but tight and complete. With the publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. A great rarity. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Gregynog Press, Newtown hardcover
1981réf. 386268London: Hodder & Stoughton 1981. Ltd. Ed. Hardcover. Very Good/None. E. J. Detmold. Hardcover red leather stamped in gilt. Facsimile edition of a book that was first published in 1909 by Hodder & Stoughton. 152 pages. 23 full page illustrations in color by Detmold plus various line illustrations in black and white throughout the text. #337 of 500 copies as indicated on tipped-on plate inside front cover. All edges gilt. No slipcase. Record # 386268 Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1847réf. 1196P083Halifax: William Milner 1847. Reprint . Hardback. Printed pages: xviii 296. Very Good Minus. 3.25 x 5.25 inches 8.25 x 13.5 cm. Publishers blind-stamped brown cloth binding with gilt decoration to spine. Page edges untrimmed. Slight bumping to ends of spine and corners light marking to boards. Vertical crease to front free endpaper. Staining to rear endpaper. Some marking and stains to the text. Fold-out frontis with pencilled notes to reverse vignette to title page. Includes 211 fables and 100 woodcut illustrations. Prize inscription to front free endpaper. . Overall condition is Very Good Minus. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £15.00; USA £15.00; Oceania £16.00; Rest of World £18.00. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 3.25 x 5.25 inches 8.25 x 13.5 cm. William Milner hardcover
1885réf. 193982London : Printed by R. Ward for B. Quaritch 1885. Memorial Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked 1/2 leather over boards. Raised bands and gilt tooling to spine. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Marbled endpapers. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 376 pages; Physical description: xxiv 376 p : illus. ; 26 cm. Subjects: Aesop's fables - Translations into English - Illustrations. Fables Greek - Translations into English - Illustrations. Series: Memorial edition of Thomas Bewick's works ; v. 4. Includes title page vignette. London : Printed by R. Ward for B. Quaritch hardcover
1910réf. 11574Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London. 1910. 8vo. 7.2 x 5.1 inches. Reprint of an edition that was originally published in 1894 with notes and an index. Beautifully illustrated throughout with over 100 fine engravings by Heighway. A few light spots to the blank endpapers but overall a nice clean copy in a fine contemporary leather binding of full tree calf. Spine with raised bands each decorated with gilt piping. Compartments double ruled and decorated in gilt. Burgundy morocco title label ruled and lettered in gilt. Double ruled gilt border on boards. Front board with gilt stamped arms of the Queen Elizabeth School in Cranbrook. Board edges with decorative gilt tooling. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. School prize label on the front pastedown endpaper. A lovely copy. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London. 1910 hardcover
2003réf. mon0003783377The Folio Society 2003T. hardcover. New. . The Folio Society hardcover
réf. 0483579459.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
